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Senators raise alarm over Asian carp invasion in Great Lakes (via The Christian Science Monitor) A 20-pound Asian carp is held after being caught in Lake Calumet, about six miles downstream from Lake Michigan, in this 2010 photo. Research...

President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, will make her case for the job to lawmakers next week, the Senate Banking Committee said Thursday. The committee said the hearing to consider Yellen’s...

The 16-day US government shutdown cost 6.6 million in lost workdays for furloughed federal workers, amounting to $2.0 billion in lost productivity, the White House said Thursday in a report. The Office of Management and Budget survey charted the...

Detroit police are questioning a person of interest in an attack on a local barber shop Wednesday evening that left three people dead and another six injured, WWJ-TV reported. “This is a violent act, and basically what I refer to as urban...

A sketch of a boat, done by president John F. Kennedy the day before he was assassinated, is among some 200 JFK items on sale Thursday in an online auction. The pencil drawing, doodled on stationary from Houston’s Rice Hotel, will fetch an...

Parents and students in North Texas have become concerned after a group led by a man who spent time in federal prison for trying to blow up a church showed up at several schools with graphic photos of aborted fetuses. According to WFAA, Burleson...

The online activist hacker collective Anonymous announced Thursday that it is taking up a new campaign in hopes of bringing to justice the people who allegedly raped and murdered a 2-year-old from the Phoenix, AZ area. According to a notice...

Fox News radio host Todd Starnes focused his daily outrage Thursday on a North Carolina school district that refused to let a local pastor hang posters with the words “In God We Trust” on campuses. The Watauga Democrat reported on...

The US Senate passed a historic gay rights bill Thursday that would prohibit companies from hiring and firing based on an employee’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) passed 64-32, with...

A French family who came to the United States for medical treatment said they were stranded in Chicago after British Airways determined their son was too fat to fly. Kevin Chenais, 22, spent a year and a half at the Mayo Clinic for treatment of...

A homeowner told investigators that his shotgun went off accidentally and fatally shot a Detroit woman in the head as she stood on his front porch over the weekend. The family of Renisha McBride say the 19-year-old was seeking help after...

The North Carolina Dept. of Transportation (NCDOT) alerted residents on Wednesday that traffic conditions were suffering because of ‘Women Drivers, Rain, Obama Care.’ According to the Raleigh News & Observer, the NCDOT’s...

A Texas school is standing by its policy after cafeteria workers threw a sixth grader’s breakfast in the trash when they realized his account was short 30 cents. Jennifer Castilleja told KTRK that she offered to come to the school...

A White House grasping for any good news during a grim political run on Thursday seized on new government figures showing a surprise spurt of economic growth. Jason Furman, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, said the 2.8 percent...